LOGINRuth’s life shatters on Valentine’s Day when she walks in on her boyfriend in bed with her sister . Heartbroken and humiliated she cried so bitterly,Promising never to love again. Months later, billionaire Leonard Williams cold, powerful, and untouchable is drugged at a business gala and wakes beside a stranger with no memory of the night. The scandal threatens to destroy his empire, and his search for the truth leads him straight to Ruth the quiet woman whose name is tangled in the mystery. But as they dig deeper, it becomes clear they were both set up. Someone wants them ruined… or dead. Bound together by danger, suspicion, and a night neither can remember, Ruth and Leonard are forced into a reluctant alliance that quickly becomes something more. Just as the truth begins to surface, Ruth collapses revealing a secret that change everything. She carrying his child.
View MoreThe car was too quiet.Not peaceful but controlled.Ruth noticed it the moment the door shut behind her. The kind of silence money bought. Soundproofed. Engine tuned low. Glass thick enough to shut the world out.She sat stiffly in the back seat, arms folded tight across her chest, gaze fixed on the window. The city slid past in muted lights and blurred shapes, like she was watching life through a screen she could no longer touch.Leonard sat opposite her.Not beside her.Opposite.!!! A choice.His posture was composed, spine straight, hands resting loosely on his thighs. If she hadn’t known him, she might have mistaken it for calm. She knew better. This was restraint. The kind that cracked concrete if pushed too far.Neither of them spoke.Good. Her body had started to betray her now that the danger had passed. A tremor in her hands. A dull, spreading ache deep in her stomach that pulsed every time the car slowed or turned.She ignored it.She refused to give him another reason to
Leonard didn’t slow down.The city bled past the windows in streaks of white and red, but his focus stayed sharp, coiled tight around one thing Ruth. Alive or not. Breathing or not. Everything else was noise.The call replayed in his head again and again.She’s resilient.A taunt. A promise. A warning.He’d let too many people believe they could touch what was his.Never again.“East side,” Leonard said, voice low. “Warehouse corridor. Pull up three blocks out.”The driver obeyed without question.Leonard adjusted his cufflinks, fingers steady despite the storm ripping through his chest. Anger sat beneath his calm like a loaded weapon. Someone had taken her because of him. Used her as bait because they knew exactly where to strike.That truth burned worse than fear.They stepped out into the cold night. The warehouse loomed ahead, hollow and dark, its windows blind, its silence wrong. Too clean. Too controlled.Leonard lifted a hand. His men spread out, shadows dissolving into corn
Ruth woke to the sound of metal. Not loud. Not crashing. Just a soft, deliberate click the kind that didn’t belong to a house settling or pipes adjusting. The kind that knew exactly what it was doing. Her eyes snapped open.For a moment, nothing made sense. The ceiling above her was wrong. Too low. Too bare. No familiar cracks. No faint water stain shaped like a bird she used to trace with her eyes while lying on her couch. This ceiling was smooth, pale, and utterly unfamiliar. Her breath hitched. Memory came back like a blow the silence, the missing test, the slow, sick realization that her life had been folded neatly into someone else’s plan and tucked away. She didn’t move.She lay still on the cold floor, cheek pressed to tile, muscles screaming, every nerve pulled tight as wire. Her fingers curled slightly, nails scraping grit she didn’t remember being there. The sound came again. A door, Not opening, Locking. Her heart slammed hard against her ribs. They’re here
Ruth pressed her back against the wall, knees drawn to her chest, hands trembling as they hovered over her stomach. The apartment was quiet. Too quiet. The kind of silence that waited, that listened, that remembered. Every faint tick of the clock, every hum of the refrigerator, even the distant rumble of the street sounded like a warning.She hadn’t realized how long she’d been sitting there, rocking slightly, her forehead pressed to her knees. Her fingers traced patterns on the floor, searching for control in the grooves of the tiles. But control was gone,Someone had been here. Gone through her things. Taken what she had refused to even acknowledge.Her pulse spiked,her stomach twisted, Her chest burned.The test.Gone.Her throat ached. She wanted to scream, to shatter the apartment with her voice, but no sound came. She pressed her hands over her mouth instead, teeth biting down on her own fingers until the pain made her focus.“They’re using you. They’re using you to get to hi
Ruth didn’t move for a long time.The door stayed at her back, solid and cold, its weight pressed into her spine as if it were the only thing holding her upright. Her breathing came in shallow pulls, uneven, like she’d forgotten the rhythm of it.In.Out.Her wrists throbbed again, dull and insis
The pharmacy bag cut into Ruth’s fingers as she climbed the stairs.She didn’t slow down, even when her chest tightened, even when the dim hallway swayed slightly under the flickering bulb. She told herself it was exhaustion. It had been her excuse for everything lately.Home waited at the end of
The city was still half-asleep when Ruth stepped onto the street.Morning mist clung to her skin, cool and sharp, cutting through the haze in her head. Each step away from the hotel felt unreal, as though the night had fractured her sense of time. Her fingers trembled as she tightened the bathrobe
Ruth woke up choking on air.The scream tore out of her before she understood where she was, ripped from her chest like something feral and terrified. Her body jerked upright, lungs burning, heart slamming so violently it made her dizzy. The sound echoed once too clean, too contained before vanishi












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